Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. — Raymond Chandler
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
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PORTRAIT OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI by Bob Kessel
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Bob Kessel has created an art series titled “American Icons” featuring a portrait of Charles Bukowski. Appropriately, Buk is shown drinking a bottle of beer. This picture is available as a limited edition art print. Contact Bob Kessel for pricing and availability.
BEER from: Love is A Mad Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
I don’t know how many bottles of beer I have consumed while waiting for things to get better I dont know how much wine and whisky and beer mostly beer I have consumed after splits with women- waiting for the phone to ring waiting for the sound of footsteps, and the phone to ring waiting for the sounds of footsteps, and the phone never rings until much later and the footsteps never arrive until much later when my stomach is coming up out of my mouth they arrive as fresh as spring flowers: “what the hell have you done to yourself? it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!”
the female is durable she lives seven and one half years longer than the male, and she drinks very little beer because she knows its bad for the figure.
while we are going mad they are out dancing and laughing with horney cowboys.
well, there’s beer sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles and when you pick one up the bottle fall through the wet bottom of the paper sack rolling clanking spilling gray wet ash and stale beer, or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m. in the morning making the only sound in your life.
beer rivers and seas of beer the radio singing love songs as the phone remains silent and the walls stand straight up and down and beer is all there is.
Bob Kessel has created a picture of Muhammad Ali immortalizing the iconic image of Ali standing over Sonny Liston at the end of their famous fight as part of his “American Icons” art series. It is available as a limited edition art prints and originals. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.
Jersey Joe presided over a fight that even today still contains a mystery, a short fight that has become the most written about and talked about of all time. It lasted one minute and 42 seconds only. Ali threw three punches of note, Liston none at all. The first came almost before the bell had finished ringing, a stiff right cross. The second was a clip to Liston’s head, again with the right hand that appeared to stun him. The third, which practically no one, including Liston himself, even saw in real time was a flashing right hadn’t that lifted Liston’s left leg and sent him to the canvas for a long count.
The punch, which Ali was quick to call the anchor punch, has been analyzed endlessly. Seen now with the benefit of slow motion technology. It is exquisitely timed and certainly concussive almost like the blow of a martial artist. Liston shakes and slumps to the floor. Only sonny would ever truly know what effect it had.
The punch had certainly duped the crowd. The columnist jimmy cannon proclaimed from ringside that “it wouldn’t have dented a grape…” the audience became convinced the fight was fixed a view that became popular over the following months. “Boxing wants no more of Liston,” intoned the ring magazine. Ali himself said afterwards: “the punch jarred him. It was a good punch but I didn’t think I hit him so hard he couldn’t get up.”
Ali stood over Liston, screaming at him to stand up and fight. Sonny couldn’t or wouldn’t. Jersey Joe Walcott failed to get Ali to a neutral corner. Transfixed by Ali’s manic behavior, Walcott didn’t realize Liston had been on the floor for a full 17 seconds by the time he finally got to his feet.
Walcott wiped down sonny’s gloves and ordered the fighters to resume. Only when a journalist at ringside alerted him to the fact Liston had been counted out by the timekeeper did Walcott signal the fight was over. For the second time, an ali-vs-liston bout concluded in chaos.
Bob kessel’s American Icons art series also includes Marilyn Monroe, Miles Davis, Charles Bukowski, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, John F Kennedy and many more.
Artists on Art is an art series by Bob Kessel of portraits of famous artists drawn in the style of the artist depicted. Each picture has a quote by that artist. Many will be surprised by these not so well known quotes.
Artists depicted in the Artists on Art series are Salvador Dali, Leonardo DaVinci, Giorgio DeChirico, Randall Enos, Roy Lichtenstein, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Rene Magritte, Henri Matisse, Michelangelo, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, Peter Paul Rubens, John Singer Sargent, Ben Shahn, Su Tung Po, Vincent Van Gogh, Orson Welles, James McNeill Whistler.
Bob Kessel drew an illustration of Roger Federer for the New York Times special U.S. Open Tennis section. The illustration is available as a limited edition print. Contact the artist for prices and availability.
Gianni Clerici of La Repubblica, one of the great tennis writers, was covering the U.S. Open for Italian Television. He loved Bob Kessel’s illustration of Roger Federer that appeared in the New York Times so much he purchased a limited edition fine art print of Federer for a museum in Italy.
